x-windows

1999-10-24 Thread raymond ferrari
Like another post to this list recently(Bryan Walton w. response from Kent West), I have a problem starting x. I have the directory /etc/X11 and a file for XF86(I did choose to install x during the dselect process: desktop system) however, when I startx I get a fatal error and the following: _

cti (computer telephony integration)

1999-10-24 Thread Moises Ellis
does debian have any support for cti . please this is urgent

Re: HELP!: problems after potato upgrade

1999-10-24 Thread Greg Wooledge
J Horacio MG ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libBrokenLocale.so (No such file > or directory), skipping > ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libcrypt.so (No such file or > directory), skipping [...] You've updated the base shared libraries but not the devel

Re: Switch from static IP to DHCP

1999-10-24 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > I have to switch from static ipadress to dhcp. I installed dhcp > clientpackages but my system still uses the static ip adress. How do I > properly remove this and which packages do I have to uninstall? You don't need to uninstall anyth

Re: Just went tp potato

1999-10-24 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 09:28:44PM +0100, Patrick Kirk wrote: > Just upgraded from slink to potato and seem to be having a few mail > troubles. How can I tell if exim is running? It never shows up in pstree? Telnet to port 25 on the local machine. If you get a banner message from Exim, it's ru

offtopic: perl question about dialog.pl

1999-10-24 Thread Olaf Conradi
Hello, I'm new to perl and want to write a small perl script with a nice userinterface. There is a wrapperscript for /usr/bin/dialog, but it gives the following warning: Use of implicit split to @_ is deprecated at ./dialog.pl line 34. I'm using potato with perl-5.005. What is the correct synta

x-windows

1999-10-24 Thread raymond ferrari
Like another post to this list recently(Bryan Walton w. response from Kent West), I have a problem starting x. I have the directory /etc/X11 and a file for XF86(I did choose to install x during the dselect process: desktop system) however, when I startx I get a fatal error and the following: _

Re: How do you start GNOME?

1999-10-24 Thread Art Lemasters
On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 04:50:57PM +0100, Patrick Kirk wrote: > Thanks. It seems I have TWM and need someting a little more user friendly. > Enlightenment probably. I run enlightenment. In an Eterm (or xterm), try gnome-panel & ...not sure, since I don't have the panel installed again, ye

2 problems -- building the 2.0.36 kernel; login error

1999-10-24 Thread clread
1. I upgraded Debian 1.3.1 --> 2.1, but my kernel is still 2.0.29. What should I do to upgrade the kernel to 2.0.36?   2. When I login as any user other than root, the system rejects me with the error msg:       "System bootup in progress -- please wait"   I incrementally killed all

Re: Network config problems - please help

1999-10-24 Thread Patrick Kirk
I had this problem and it turned out the card was trying to use an IRQ of 0. Fixed it by cd-ing into the modules directory and loading each module in turn 'til I found one that worked.

Re: Just went tp potato

1999-10-24 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 09:28:44PM +0100, Patrick Kirk wrote: > Hi all, > > Just upgraded from slink to potato and seem to be having a few mail > troubles. How can I tell if exim is running? It never shows up in pstree? > > Patrick exim is run on demand from inetd in potato, so it won't show

Re: Package differences - bla_all.deb vs. bla.deb

1999-10-24 Thread Bob Hilliard
Hugo van der Merwe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > What is the difference between the > > locales_2.1.2-5_all.deb > > package file and the > > locales_2.1.2-5.deb > > package file? I assume packages with a _i386 "extention" are specifically > for the i386 architecture. That makes me think

expert engine

1999-10-24 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
Hi folks, I wonder if such an engine (in GNU/GPL) exists? JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> FORTRAN is for pipe stress freaks and crystallography weenies.

More sound problems...

1999-10-24 Thread Chris Mayes
Well, before I left for the weekend, I had my sound working. When I returned, my machine had apparently lost power and was sitting there at "invalid system disk" because I hada floppy in the drive. Anyway, my main partition was hosed, so I had to run fsck manually. Next, I fired up xmms to make

Netscape's toolbar is black & white?

1999-10-24 Thread Colin Telmer
Hi, the toolbar and frame around netscape 4.71 is black and white although the pages I view are in color. This has actually being happening for some time starting a few netscape verions back in time. I am not exhuasting any colormaps as all other programs started before or after are in color. Has a

Re: another question about my monitor

1999-10-24 Thread John Carline
jh wrote: > As you may know I have been having trouble getting my monitor set up under > x. Because of not having any documentation on the used computer that I > have, as well as not finding any info on the net about horiz and vert sync > settings for my monitor, I have been shooting in the dark w

Mail woes after upgrade to potato

1999-10-24 Thread Patrick Kirk
Hi all, Just went from slink to potato. Excellent upgrade program... All seemed to go well other than having to start again a few times when dnsutils caused grief. All seems to work now though I'm having configuration proble,s with mail. Having some problems after potato upgrade which suggest

Re: Switch from static IP to DHCP

1999-10-24 Thread Art Lemasters
On Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 01:55:54AM +0200, Wolfgang Bauer wrote: > I have to switch from static ipadress to dhcp. I installed dhcp > clientpackages but my system still uses the static ip adress. How do I > properly remove this and which packages do I have to uninstall? ...not sure whether you recei

Re: wine trouble

1999-10-24 Thread aphro
what if u remove the libwine package before wine ? if doesnt work .. i --force-depends it. if you want my wine.conf lemme know i dont use wine for anything cept CDRWin though. nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Linux System Administrator h

Re: Cannot telnet on my SMTP port

1999-10-24 Thread aphro
you gotta run a MTA like smail or sendmail [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Linux System Administrator http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336http

Re: Winbond-based generic NICs

1999-10-24 Thread aphro
easy .. get a new NIC :) $20 for a ISA NE2K PnP NIC or $25 for a PCI RT8139 nic .. check nasa's site for updated drivers and other ne2k stuff. i forgot the link off hand if u need it search for nasa on yahoo.aphroland.org nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-

Re: wine trouble

1999-10-24 Thread Darren Benham
In linux.debian.user, you wrote: >hey guys, > >At this point, I might have wine.conf mangled beyond recognition, but I >also stumbled upon this: > >dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of wine: > libwine0.0.971116 depends on wine (= 0.0.981018-1.1). >dpkg: error processing wine (--remove): >

Network config problems - please help

1999-10-24 Thread Stephan Hachinger
Hello! I've got problems setting up my network card (Etherlink III 509b) on my slink box, running a self-compiled 2.2.12 kernel. The network tools in netbase are recompiled potato ones. When booting, I get the messages (from which program???): SIOCADDART: Invalid argument SIOCSIFADDR: Operation

Re: How do you start GNOME?

1999-10-24 Thread John Carline
Patrick Kirk wrote: > Thanks. It seems I have TWM and need someting a little more user friendly. > Enlightenment probably. That or IceWM-GNOME > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Powered by the Penguin

Just went tp potato

1999-10-24 Thread Patrick Kirk
Hi all, Just upgraded from slink to potato and seem to be having a few mail troubles. How can I tell if exim is running? It never shows up in pstree? Patrick

RE: wine trouble

1999-10-24 Thread Pollywog
On 21-Oct-99 tf wrote: > hey guys, > > At this point, I might have wine.conf mangled beyond recognition, but I > also stumbled upon this: > > dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of wine: > libwine0.0.971116 depends on wine (= 0.0.981018-1.1). > dpkg: error processing wine (--remove): >

Re: Winbond-based generic NICs

1999-10-24 Thread Bob Nielsen
For what it's worth, I have been using a PCI NIC with a Winbond chip for a few years with the driver compiled into my kernel (both the ne2k-pci and before that was available the ISA ne2000 driver). As I recall, it was recognized without problems by the installation kernel (bo, I think), which load

Re: Switch from static IP to DHCP

1999-10-24 Thread Art Lemasters
On Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 01:55:54AM +0200, Wolfgang Bauer wrote: > I have to switch from static ipadress to dhcp. I installed dhcp > clientpackages but my system still uses the static ip adress. How do I > properly remove this and which packages do I have to uninstall? See and edit the /etc/in

Re: Can't boot from floppies - HELP!

1999-10-24 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Jake Griesbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm trying to boot from the Debian rescue disk to install linux for the > first time. I have an adaptec AIC-7890 scsi card, so I was typing > > linux aix7xxx > > to boot. > After the kernel loads, I get the following after the scsi driver loads: > >

year-2000 problem already showing up in mirror

1999-10-24 Thread Daniel Barclay
I recently noticed that for non-existent files, mirror (the Perl script) now reports dates of "2069/12/31-19:00:00" instead of "1969/12/31-19:00:00" : Compare src README.ftp (1): 1998/11/06-00:00:00 1301 f dest README.ftp (): 2069/12/31-19:00:00 0 0 Oh, gross. I just looked

Mutt-ja Reposted

1999-10-24 Thread Paul
Dazed and Confused again I`m afraid. I had a fairly servicable exim/fetchmail/mutt system (although mailcap has as yet escaped me) until yesterday when I decided to try and enable Japanese support. I replaced standard mutt (from a slink CD) with mutt-ja_0.95.4i.jp2-2,and also the required slang1-ja

"Resent-Cc: recipient list not shown: ;" causes "unknown addressing form" error

1999-10-24 Thread Daniel Barclay
Does the format of the line: Resent-Cc: recipient list not shown: ; cause problems for anyone else? I read debian-user mail in Emacs. When I reply to a message, Emacs makes a To: line of: To: debian-user@lists.debian.org, , recipient list not shown: ; If I forgot to trim that odd

ide atapi zipdrive transfer rates

1999-10-24 Thread Wouter Hanegraaff
While playing with ide-scsi to get my ide cd writer working, I found out that the ide-atapi zipdrive works with ide-scsi emulation, even when the ide floppy driver is not compiled in the kernel or module. But when I tested the copying speed, I noticed that the transfer rate is much higher using th

Re: automated md5sum checks

1999-10-24 Thread Darxus
> On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 06:25:27PM -, Pollywog wrote: > > Is there an app which can perform md5sum checks of binaries on an automated > > basis, like once a week or so? Would doing this just slow down my machine? I know there is. Before my hard drive crashed & I reinstalled, I found it an

Re: Help!!! - Potato upgrade using dselect trashed computer...

1999-10-24 Thread Ben Collins
On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 08:30:23AM -0700, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: > > Ben, > > Out of despration, I tried the lines below instead of the ones you gave me. > > Lines you had me use: > auth required pam_unix_auth.so > account required pam_unix_acct.so > password required

Re: Looking for monitor sync settings

1999-10-24 Thread John Foster
jh wrote: > > Sorry to keep posting on this subject. I have tried about 35 different > combinations in xf86config, but I still cannot find what the monitor needs. > Every time I run xf86config and then do startx I get a screen with screwed, > flickering and unreadable characters. My monitor is a M

Re: How do you start GNOME?

1999-10-24 Thread Patrick Kirk
Thanks. It seems I have TWM and need someting a little more user friendly. Enlightenment probably.

Re: Help!!! - Potato upgrade using dselect trashed computer...

1999-10-24 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
Ben, Out of despration, I tried the lines below instead of the ones you gave me. Lines you had me use: auth required pam_unix_auth.so account required pam_unix_acct.so password required pam_unix_passwd.so session required pam_unix_session.so Lines taken from the ot

wine trouble

1999-10-24 Thread tf
hey guys, At this point, I might have wine.conf mangled beyond recognition, but I also stumbled upon this: dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of wine: libwine0.0.971116 depends on wine (= 0.0.981018-1.1). dpkg: error processing wine (--remove): does this look suspicious? might I be hav

Re: Help!!! - Potato upgrade using dselect trashed computer...

1999-10-24 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
In the dselect list I see passwd19990827-7 shadowI do not see a package called shadow. I am getting my debian from ftp.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free There is not a package called pam-apps on the list. Do you think the segmentation faults I get with passwd, su,

HELP!: problems after potato upgrade

1999-10-24 Thread J Horacio MG
Hi, Please, bear with me for a while as it seems I'm in trouble. I recently upgraded the following from potato: apt_0.3.13.deb libstdc++2.10_2.95.2-0pre2.deb gconv-modules_2.1.2-5.deblibstdc++2.9_2.91.61-1.deb glibc-doc_2.1.2-5.deblocales_2.1.2-5

Re: another question about my monitor

1999-10-24 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
On Sat, 23 Oct, 1999 à 10:41:50PM -0600, jh wrote: > As you may know I have been having trouble getting my monitor set up under > x. Because of not having any documentation on the used computer that I > have, as well as not finding any info on the net about horiz and vert sync > settings for my mon

Re: How do you start GNOME?

1999-10-24 Thread Martin Fluch
On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, Patrick Kirk wrote: > Am I missing something obvious? I just can't make out how to start > GNOME? I've always used KDE til now so would like to get GNOME to > work for cpmaprison's sake. There is no need to start gnome ... you can start the panel, which uses gnome with 'pa

Re: packages needed to compile kernel ?

1999-10-24 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 24 Oct, Darxus wrote about "packages needed to compile kernel ?" > > I just reinstalled debian and used the dialup profile. I'm trying to > compile kernel v2.2.13, and getting the following error when I do make > menuconfig: > > d-bm6-17:/usr/src/linux# make menuconfig > rm -f include/asm

How do you start GNOME?

1999-10-24 Thread Patrick Kirk
Hi all, Am I missing something obvious? I just can't make out how to start GNOME? I've always used KDE til now so would like to get GNOME to work for cpmaprison's sake. All help appreciated! Patrick

Re: Very basic question

1999-10-24 Thread Patrick Kirk
Many thanks!

Re: Very basic question

1999-10-24 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 02:23:22PM +0100, Patrick Kirk wrote: > What is com1 called? I thought it was /dev/cua1 but I know it snow /dev/cua0 actually - the Linux devices are numbered from zero. > /dev/ttyS something...help please as my X setup is taking forever. If > there's a URL for this inf

[OT] Xresource setting based on pattern(regex)

1999-10-24 Thread Brian Servis
I tried searching archives, deja.com, etc and couldn't find what I was looking for. Is it possible to set a Xresource based a pattern of the default resource value that the application sets or another resource of that app? I have a third party commercial app that sets ridiculous long title and

Re: Very basic question

1999-10-24 Thread Tomasz Wegrzanowski
On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 02:23:22PM +0100, Patrick Kirk wrote: > Hi all, > > What is com1 called? I thought it was /dev/cua1 but I know it snow > /dev/ttyS something...help please as my X setup is taking forever. If > there's a URL for this info, please do not hesitate to send it and I'll > rtfm.

Very basic question

1999-10-24 Thread Patrick Kirk
Hi all, What is com1 called? I thought it was /dev/cua1 but I know it snow /dev/ttyS something...help please as my X setup is taking forever. If there's a URL for this info, please do not hesitate to send it and I'll rtfm. Patrick

Re: xemacs21 and auctex

1999-10-24 Thread Ingo Reimann
On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 10:59:54AM +0200, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: > Ingo Reimann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > i got some problem with xemacs when upgrading from 20 to 21. How do i > > activate auctex? There seems to be some trick, that i can't figure out. > > The needed files are there... >

Re: perl: warning: Setting locale failed.

1999-10-24 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 07:28:46AM -0400, Colin Telmer wrote: > I recently upgraded to the latest unstable distribution and now get the > following error message: > > perl: warning: Setting locale failed. > perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: > LANGUAGE = (unset), >

perl: warning: Setting locale failed.

1999-10-24 Thread Colin Telmer
I recently upgraded to the latest unstable distribution and now get the following error message: perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = (unset), LC_ALL = (unset), LANG = "(null)" are supported and installe

Re: Cannot telnet on my SMTP port

1999-10-24 Thread Martin Fluch
On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, Alessandro Zaffaroni wrote: > I'm trying to configure fetchmail to retrieve my mail from my pop3 > server. > However, something goes wrong when fetchmail tries to send retrieved > messages to my SMTP port. > Fetchmail send a messages like : "SMTP connection failed" > I checked

SCSI question

1999-10-24 Thread Illo de' Illis
Just wondering... I've set up the SCSI-emulation on the top of my ATAPI rewritable CD (it's a Philips CDRW400 4x4x16) and I've noticed that, while I can read a lot of bad CDs with the ide-cdrom driver (because it tries to read the faulty track more than once), the scsi driver quits immediately with

Re: Stateful Packet - Firewall

1999-10-24 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul McHale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Does anyone know of a Stateful packet inspection firewall for Linux >(preferably debian) ? Well there is Sinus - http://www.sinusfirewall.org/ Never used it though Mike. -- First things first, but not necessarily in that or

Switch from static IP to DHCP

1999-10-24 Thread Wolfgang Bauer
I have to switch from static ipadress to dhcp. I installed dhcp clientpackages but my system still uses the static ip adress. How do I properly remove this and which packages do I have to uninstall? Thanx, Gery -- - Gernot Bauer, University of Linz, Austria

Re: Error message

1999-10-24 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 09:01:05AM +, Godric wrote: > Can anyone please tell me what the following message from > /var/log/messages means, and if it is as bad as it sounds? > directory sread (sector 0x1b) failed attempt to access beyond end of > device Is LBA activated? And if so, was it enabl

Re: Winbond-based generic NICs

1999-10-24 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 12:51:49AM -0700, Aaron Van Couwenberghe wrote: > Hi all - > Trouble is, on this one machine I can't get the NIC driver to load :(. > > It has a winbond chip in it, and it's supposed to be 'ne2k compatible,' > but the ne2k-pci module won't load. I get some of the more c

Re: kernel-source: make menuconfig does not run ?

1999-10-24 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 09:18:18AM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote: > I have no such problems with linux-2.2.13.tar.bz2 (not debinaized). > > I wonder if there is a problem with kernel-source-2.2.12 ? No: I use a pure slink, not any PB with 2.2.12. JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Funct

Re: another question about my monitor

1999-10-24 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 10:41:50PM -0600, jh wrote: > [SNIP] > My question is: What if I reinstalled Windows 3.11 Would there be some kind > of utility that would show me what settings Windows is using for the > monitor sync? Or Dos? Nope, they don't manage to tell you about SYNCs and refresh rate

Re: Stateful Packet - Firewall

1999-10-24 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 07:58:36PM -0400, Paul McHale wrote: > > Does anyone know of a Stateful packet inspection firewall for Linux > (preferably debian) ? I was given this URL, which tests my firewall; I don't know if it is an overall test, but it says I'm not attackable :) http://grc.com/x/ne

Re: Parallel port problem - No printing possible

1999-10-24 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 06:08:15PM -0500, Christian Dysthe wrote: > Hi, > compiling with auto detect I can see the printer detected, but on > parport0 (or something like that) instead of lp0. I am not able to > print either way though. > > How can check that my parallel port works like it should?

Re: Debian and M$ Outlook Off Topic

1999-10-24 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 07:12:46PM +0100, Patrick Kirk wrote: > Is there an IMAP client [not Netscape] for Gnome or KDE that is at version 1 > or beyond? > > Patrick I'm not so sure ('cos I tryied it only once) but I think ISHMAIL can do that. JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> If

Re: automated md5sum checks

1999-10-24 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 06:25:27PM -, Pollywog wrote: > Is there an app which can perform md5sum checks of binaries on an automated > basis, like once a week or so? Would doing this just slow down my machine? > > thanks Have a look at the "cruft" package, and put it in a cron job, with a red

Re: adding win 95 partition

1999-10-24 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 12:58:35PM -0500, James Ruby wrote: > I'm wondering if this can be donw with out re-installing debian? > > I have a 20 gb drive with 5 gb for root and 5 gb for user and 128 mb swap > they are all primary partitions. > > Now I have a little over 9 gb left, I would like to d

Cannot telnet on my SMTP port

1999-10-24 Thread Alessandro Zaffaroni
Hi all, I'm trying to configure fetchmail to retrieve my mail from my pop3 server. However, something goes wrong when fetchmail tries to send retrieved messages to my SMTP port. Fetchmail send a messages like : "SMTP connection failed" I checked if I can telnet my SMTP port and I can't. --> trying

Error message

1999-10-24 Thread Godric
Can anyone please tell me what the following message from /var/log/messages means, and if it is as bad as it sounds? directory sread (sector 0x1b) failed attempt to access beyond end of device Thanks in advance

Winbond-based generic NICs

1999-10-24 Thread Aaron Van Couwenberghe
Hi all - I'm doing some superhero work here, rescuing fellow students from the Gates of hell and introducing them to sweet, brand GNU, true freedom. Trouble is, on this one machine I can't get the NIC driver to load :(. It has a winbond chip in it, and it's supposed to be 'ne2k compatible,

Re: kernel-source: make menuconfig does not run ?

1999-10-24 Thread Shaul Karl
> > Package: kernel-source > > Version: N/A > > Severity: normal > > > > [13:57:06 kernel-source-2.2.12]# make menuconfig > > rm -f include/asm > > ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) > > make -C scripts/lxdialog all > > make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.12/scripts/lxdialog'

Re: kernel-source: make menuconfig does not run ?

1999-10-24 Thread Shaul Karl
> > Package: kernel-source > > Version: N/A > > Severity: normal > > > > [13:57:06 kernel-source-2.2.12]# make menuconfig > > rm -f include/asm > > ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) > > make -C scripts/lxdialog all > > make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.12/scripts/lxdialog'

Re: Segmentation Fault Help! 2nd call!

1999-10-24 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
I hope somebody has an idea on what to do with my system. I am at a lost on what to do except to remove and re-install the packages which have the bad programs in. I get major warnings against doing this by dselect so I am holding off until I can get some more information on the implementation

Re: packages needed to compile kernel ?

1999-10-24 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > I just reinstalled debian and used the dialup profile. I'm trying to > compile kernel v2.2.13, and getting the following error when I do make > menuconfig: > > d-bm6-17:/usr/src/linux# make menuconfig > rm -f include/asm > ( cd include

Re: Configuring X

1999-10-24 Thread Andrei Ivanov
> > Hi, > Due to the advice of a few wise individuals, I continue to make > slow, but steady progress in getting Debian 2.1 installed on my IBM > 390E laptop. I am a newbie and am currently trying to get X Windows > running. I have tried both xf86config and XF86Setup and still am having >

another question about my monitor

1999-10-24 Thread jh
As you may know I have been having trouble getting my monitor set up under x. Because of not having any documentation on the used computer that I have, as well as not finding any info on the net about horiz and vert sync settings for my monitor, I have been shooting in the dark while trying to set

[TEST] Ignore

1999-10-24 Thread Wim Kerkhoff
You shouldn't be reading this! -- Regards, Wim Kerkhoff Year, n.: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

packages needed to compile kernel ?

1999-10-24 Thread Darxus
I just reinstalled debian and used the dialup profile. I'm trying to compile kernel v2.2.13, and getting the following error when I do make menuconfig: d-bm6-17:/usr/src/linux# make menuconfig rm -f include/asm ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) make -C scripts/lxdialog all make[1]: Entering di

Re: libc6 >=2.1 on slink, without apt-get possible?

1999-10-24 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi John Miskinis; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: > Hi, > > At this time I can't use apt-get, as I can't connect to my ISP > under linux. If possible, I was hoping to find a site that has > the lib6c >= 2.1 and dependency packages, that I could install > with dpkg on top of a slink CD based s

Re: libc6 >=2.1 on slink, without apt-get possible?

1999-10-24 Thread John Miskinis
Hi, (1) It is probably easiest to get the isp stuff working I only have AOL at the moment. I connect via WIN95, and then mount by "c:" as a vfat partition under linux, and move .deb files that I grab on the net, over to my linux partition. (2) Is the problem your modem or your isp ? T

Re: poff makes X hang

1999-10-24 Thread mcclosk
Jocke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |> I have a strange problem I haven't seen before. When I type poff |> my machine hangs. ctrl-alt-del doesn't work ctrl-alt-[<---] doesn't |> work. All I can do is pressing the button to reboot. and John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> responded: |> Yes. You are us

Proxy ARP

1999-10-24 Thread Eber de Castro Diniz
Hi I'm trying to set up a Proxy Arp in my Linux Debian via ppp connection. I've read the documentation about this topic, and I've done (I think) everything necessary for it works, but still not working... The server and client both have virtual ip's(192.168.1.1 and 192.168.1.10). I have configure

Re: Configuring X

1999-10-24 Thread Maciej Kalisiak
On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 10:24:09PM -0400, Bryan K. Walton wrote: > (A little background): My video card is a NeoMagic 256AV with > 2.5meg of memory. My screen is capable of 1024 X 768 resolution at > 60kHz. ^^^ kHz: WOW, that is one mean laptop; even my desktop monitor can't go that fas

Re: Configuring X

1999-10-24 Thread Mike Werner
Looking at http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/ I found 4 links for that model. Of those 4, only one had any real info. Take a look at http://www.new.ox.ac.uk/~adam/computing/ThinkPad/ Looks like what you need is there. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | "Where do you want to g

Re: packaging question

1999-10-24 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 07:07:27PM -0700, Ron Farrer wrote: > ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/ and I check on a couple and they > have maintainers. libgtk-*, licq, libglib to name a few... Funny, I have libgtk+1.2.6-1 here and the most current version from ftp.gtk.org is 1.2.6. I didn

Configuring X

1999-10-24 Thread Bryan K. Walton
Hi, Due to the advice of a few wise individuals, I continue to make slow, but steady progress in getting Debian 2.1 installed on my IBM 390E laptop. I am a newbie and am currently trying to get X Windows running. I have tried both xf86config and XF86Setup and still am having problems.

Re: segmentation faults

1999-10-24 Thread Matthew Gregan
On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 08:39:19PM +, John wrote: > Have been unable to find any definition and write-up on > 'segmentation faults'. I have encountered this whilst trying > a package installation as part of the learning process - > the matter is not critical, but nontheless I would like to > un

Re: packaging question

1999-10-24 Thread Ron Farrer
Eric G . Miller (egm2@jps.net) wrote: > Some packages are orphaned, so nobody is maintaining them. However, I > doubt that many packages are "quite old". Many of the packages on my > system are quite current. Are you sure you were looking in the right > place? ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/un

Re: Looking for fetchmail program

1999-10-24 Thread Greg Wooledge
Alexander P. Barkey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Now I'm looking for a way, to get my mail from my POP3 account to my server > and send mail over my linux server to the POP3 account... Strangely enough, the "fetchmail" program you're asking for is called "fetchmail". There's a Debian package wi

Re: Why isn't my ftp working?

1999-10-24 Thread Matthew Gregan
On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 10:02:54AM -0400, Aaron Solochek wrote: > When I put together my potato partition, I noticed that I was no longer > able to ftp to my machine. I actually wasn't able to do much. But > I copied my slink config files over, and that helped most services. So > could someone t

Re: adding win 95 partition

1999-10-24 Thread Ethan Benson
On 23/10/99 Kent West wrote: Assuming you have an IDE drive, you're limited to a max of 4 partitions I believe, which may be causing your problem. If it's a SCSI drive, I think you can have 32 partitions so that's not an issue. you can have 63 partitions on a IDE disk (i have 18 :-) ) the li

Re: adding win 95 partition

1999-10-24 Thread Ethan Benson
On 23/10/99 James Ruby wrote: I have a 20 gb drive with 5 gb for root and 5 gb for user and 128 mb swap they are all primary partitions. Now I have a little over 9 gb left, I would like to devide this in half and make partitions that windows 95 can see and use, can I do this with out trashing

Re: Re: RAID, a little question ...

1999-10-24 Thread Paolo Pedaletti
Ciao Michael-John Turner, > Yep, it can be done, but you have to make a small modification to the > kernel source. Change the value of MAX_MD_DEV in > /usr/include/linux/md.h &&/|| /usr/src/linux/include/linux/md.h (which > may or may not be the same file). :-))) Great! Thank you.

new XFMail version

1999-10-24 Thread Pollywog
Try the newest XFMail version from http://xfmail.ufies.org -- Andrew - GnuPG Public KeyID: 0x48109681 *we all live downstream*

new XFMail version

1999-10-24 Thread Pollywog
Try the newest XFMail version from http://xfmail.ufies.org -- Andrew - GnuPG Public KeyID: 0x48109681 *we all live downstream*

recording from tapes to mp3's

1999-10-24 Thread Kenneth Scharf
I have some audio cassettes that I would like to save in mp3 format. What software can I use to record .wav files? I will plug my walkman into the line input of my sound card. I tried wavr but when I played back the result (with wavp) it was nothing but distortion! (I used the defaults except s

Segmentation Fault Help!

1999-10-24 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
Help! It seems that I really screwed my system up when I allowed dselect to update packages on my potato system. I am having a problem with segmentation faults for the following commands: su login passwd Because of this, I am not able to login any other processes (virtual terminals) nor will my

Re: packaging question

1999-10-24 Thread Eric G . Miller
Some packages are orphaned, so nobody is maintaining them. However, I doubt that many packages are "quite old". Many of the packages on my system are quite current. Are you sure you were looking in the right place? -- ++ | Eric G. Miller

Re: Looking for monitor sync settings

1999-10-24 Thread Cliff Rice
On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 09:05:26PM -0600, jh wrote: > Sorry to keep posting on this subject. I have tried about 35 different > combinations in xf86config, but I still cannot find what the monitor needs. > Every time I run xf86config and then do startx I get a screen with screwed, > flickering and u